Editorial.

This year the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society celebrates its Centenary. For a hundred years its members, drawn from the medical profession in Bristol and the surrounding West Country, have been meeting regularly for mutual edification, exchange of ideas and experiences and to benefit from the learning and wisdom of countless distinguished visiting speakers. From the start it had the closest links with the Bristol Medical School and its teaching hospitals but at the

to ensure that Africa is made better than it is; that the future will make our ancestors and future generations proud.
The article by Peter Wasamba, 'Going beyond data collection in ethnography: Options for bridging the gap between researchers and archivists', falls within an interdisciplinary paradigm. It investigates what the author characterises as options for bridging the missing link between ethnographic field research and archiving. The location of the analysis is Kenya and the author interrogates the place of archiving in the entire fieldwork process and the roles played by researchers and archivists to promote access. Wasamba borrows from the postmodernist theoretical framework and argues that archivists cannot detach themselves from data collection because the decisions they make are not objective but personal and subjective. The article stresses that digital technology, in spite of its many advantages, may not deliver all that it promises to data collection and archiving, and that there is a need to complement digital technology data collection and archiving with traditional archiving methods because of the latter's reliability and cost effectiveness. Folklore, intellectual property rights and the relation between academic researchers and knowledge owners on the ground are clearly problematised.
The article by Andre Mangu is 'Good governance and democratic leadership for an African Renaissance: A reflection on African Union member states' compliance with the AUCPCC'. This article is an analytical examination and critique of one of the weaknesses of leadership in Africa -moribund approaches to ratifying, acceding to, domesticating and implementing regional and international treaties. The author points out that the CA-AU features good governance among its objectives and principles, and that good governance is stressed further in subsequent AU instruments such as the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and its African Peer-Review Mechanism (APRM) and, most important, the AUCPCC. He further argues that despite the adoption of the AUCPCC, the scourge of corruption remains entrenched and alive. Most African states have therefore failed to comply with the AUCPCC, thereby reneging on their international obligation in matters that hinder the African Renaissance and the movement from underdevelopment to development. It is suggested that the war against corruption should be strengthened with the participation of the people on the ground and a coordinated partnership of all the stakeholders at national, regional and international levels.
Carlson Anyangwe's 'Race and ethnicity: Voters' party preference in South African elections' draws from and analyses studies from a number of disciplines that have examined voters' party preference in elections in South Africa from 1994 to 2011, four of them national and provincial -1994, 1999, 2004 and 2009 -and the local government/ municipal elections of 2011. Psephology is the statistical study of voting and although some of the studies reviewed by the author are psephological, others fall within the realm of history, sociology, political science and cultural studies. The centrality of elections in defining features of a vibrant multi-party democracy is noted. Anyangwe argues that '[A]mong other values, credible elections provide what the author sees as a public mechanism for regular peaceful institutional competition for power and the opportunity for people to change, review or legitimise government through their freely expressed will'. His observation that 'in contrast to what obtains in many other African countries, ethnic identity happily has only a marginal influence on South African voters' is likely to provoke debate. The article does point out that race remains an important determinant of how voters make choices on the parties they vote for.
The last piece in the articles section is Mogege Mosemege's 'Methodological challenges in doing ethnomathematical research'. This article has a broader significance in that it 'demonstrates that ethnomathematical research contributes to the demystification of the historical false projection by colonialism that Africa and Africans were and are not culturally embedded in mathematics -especially applied mathematics'. This observation is very relevant in South Africa. The author demonstrates how researchers in ethnomathematics are confronted by a variety of methodological questions or challenges when they carry out ethnomathematical research. Among these questions or challenges are: how the researchers relate with participants and knowledge holders; the imperative of using the local language of the participant interviewees; familiarity (or lack thereof) with the knowledge holders; mathematical analysis of cultural artefacts; etc. Ethnomathematics falls within the realm of indigenous knowledge systems and the article provides compelling evidence of indigenous games as a repository of mathematical thinking and application by men and women, girls and boys. Research on games (Moruba, Malepa, Diketo, Morabaraba, Mathakuzana, Ayo; Ntchuva; Tchadji), and the use of beads and weaving in Mozambique and South Africa is presented.
The Imbizo section provides what can rightfully be regarded as Gosnell Yorke's tour de force contribution to the discourse on Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance. The piece is a presentation made at the Public Lecture Series under the auspices of the Institute for African Renaissance Studies, College of Graduate Studies, University of South Africa in late 2012. Not only does Yorke throw light on how activist intellectuals of African descent (the Diaspora) contributed to igniting the fires for the liberation of Africa from colonial and apartheid rule, he makes useful suggestions on how the various streams of the African Diaspora can contribute meaningfully to the realisation of the vision and mission of the African Renaissance. His clarification of what he calls the 'New, Modern or Contemporary Diaspora' on the one hand, and the 'Older or Historic Diaspora', on the other, is likely to provoke useful reflection and debate.
The second piece in the Imbizo section is Susan Nkomo's 'Looking for Maria, her sisters, daughters and sons.' It interrogates and challenges popular but distorted images of African conceptions and values about gender relations and African women, and raises critical questions on the gendered discourses about rights on land.
Lastly, in the Book Review section, Esther Kibuka-Sebitosi reviews Gender, livelihoods and migration in Africa by Justina Dugbazah.